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Windows 7: Windows 7 SLEEP MODE FIX !

Sleep works great on laptops where the laptop manufacturer has beaten their hardware vendors over the head till they were sleep compliant. And /maybe/ something like an HP desktop will IF you don't install any additional hardware.

But with machines like most of us probably have, self build out of "random" parts. The chance that every single hardware driver will behave through sleep is unfortiunately pretty low.

I too ususaly get one maybe two sleep cycyles before I have to reset. Meaning I always have to close everything anyway lest I lose a file so it really isn't worth it.

Cant wait to get my SSD in in a couple of days and booting will seem like coming out of sleep anyway :)

If you go into network adapters, and go into properties on whatever network card you're using, click configure and then the power management tab... Uncheck the "Allow this device to wake the computer".

The tags are slightly off for the control panel dialog box, but use common sense, they are all there, and your will find them.
For me, the step: Allow wake timers > disable/enable try both settings
can be left as default in the "disable" mode, no need to try both.

Before the fix, 7's much touted Sleep Mode was working intermittently at best. This nails the problem! ... instantly goes off... and better still, instantly comes back on when asked.

Thanks for saving me the hassle of trying to fix the problems with a Clean Install... that would have wasted hours!

My apologies! ...but the fix was not lasting... and from all indications, our dear friends at Sony, who freely charge a stiff premium for their products, nonetheless can't be bothered to offer a Win 7 driver upgrade for the 3 year old line. Hummm, wonder what else Sony makes that I WON'T be buying???

ah i,m not alone,i have tried everything to get my pc to sleep it turns off the monitor 2 secs later it s back up no matter what i change in power settings or the bios or the nic adaptor settings they all still fail,i never had a problem till 3 days ago since i re-installed windows...

Been through most of these suggestions, but pc still refused to sleep. Decided to let "troubleshooting" power options do its job; it made some suggestions, which I followed, and problem solved. You can then carefully, one-by-one modify the time settings to your liking but leave the settings alone--and the setting will be as many posters have suggested.

ugg i gave up on sleep mode years ago, it's not just a windows 7 issue either and hibernate has been disabled for longer than i can remember.

where i work i see alot of machines that don't come out of sleep/hibernate it's been an ongoing issue and as fseal points out one driver or peice of hardware could be the problem on a desktop, most of us don't look for hardware that supports or even considers sleep mode compliance and probably would ignore it if it did anyway.

Windows 7 SLEEP MODE FIX !

Windows 7 won't automatically go into sleep mode.I have a windows 7 PC with Asus m5a99fx motherboard. I can go into sleep mode manually from the shutdown button, but it won't go automatically from setting it up in power options. I have tried going to Advanced Settings and adjusting multimedia settings, and turning off Media Streaming in network...

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Laptop freezes between entering sleep mode to being in sleep modehai.. help needed.... i am having the exact problem as op.. when i press sleep button, screen goes black (as usual).. but fan, and other keyboard lights are still on... it just freezes... i have to force shutdown to again use my laptop...
i am attaching the msinfo32.nfo, driverview.txt...
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Laptop freezes between entering sleep mode to being in sleep modeHi,
I've had this problem intermittently on my laptop for the past 2 years however it has been occuring more often recently.
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Windows 7 Crashes upon Sleep modeI have no idea, here is my dump file as per instructions posted in thread. I figured out that it blue screens when it goes into sleep mode (even though I can't see it on the screen, the laptop just goes dark) then shuts off.
Is Windows 7 . . . Toshiba Satellite
- x86 (32-bit) or x64 ? 32 bit
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Sleep mode in Windows 7I am trying to get my PC to be woken from sleep by the keyboard. My keyboard and mouse are both USB devices so I have gone into my bios to enable USB devices to wake PC from sleep.
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